Word: taxies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stuck out her tongue at him. Forcing the woman's car to a halt, the general pressed his revolver against her head and demanded an apology. When angry pedestrians let the air out of the tires of his car, Prats beat a hasty retreat in a taxi. Allende used the "provocation" to wrap a "zone of emergency" around Santiago province. Some civil liberties were suspended, and the police were placed under direct military control. But by that time, a few right-wing army officers had made final their plans for the coup...
...York City, which drew up its own standards, taxi cruising would be sharply reduced, as would parking, both on-street and off. Exclusive bus lanes would be created to encourage a switch to mass transportation...
Most Libyans are rather shabbily dressed. But Tripoli, unlike Cairo, has few beggars, and taxi drivers often disdainfully reject tips. Libya's vast oil revenues (currently $2 billion per year) have enabled Gaddafi to introduce a minimum wage for workers of about $180 a month and an allowance for university students of about $75 a month...
James Jones has switched from agued realism to a thriller, set in the isles of Greece. "The taxi," Jones' first sentence begins in A Touch of Danger, "roared around the last cloverleaf of a new road and slid in against the high curb like a scared baserunner with his cleats bared." California's Ross Macdonald, who was crowned with olives by New York critics for The Underground Man (1971), has obligingly written his usual highly polished existential mystery once more. This time the title is Sleeping Beauty, and naturally the book hinges on a 25-year-old murder...
Former university professors of Marxism are now driving taxi-cabs, Pelikan said...